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Diddy Thrown Back in Solitary After Inmates Spill on His 'Pampered' Life Behind Bars
Sean "Diddy" Combs is back in the hole at FCI Fort Dix after fellow inmates described a prison lifestyle of home-cooked meals, massages, a smuggled phone and a secret liquor stash.
FORT DIX, N.J. — Sean "Diddy" Combs has been moved into the Special Housing Unit — solitary confinement, in plain English — at FCI Fort Dix after a report detailing an unusually cushy stretch of prison life, according to TMZ, which broke the story.
Combs is roughly a year into the 50-month sentence he received after being convicted on two counts of violating the Mann Act. His legal team had specifically requested the low-security New Jersey facility, which offers drug treatment programming, as his place of confinement.
Curry Chicken, Contraband and a Premium Liquor Stash
The claims that triggered his transfer to solitary are striking in their specificity. Four men who said they were housed in the same unit as Combs told NBC News that fellow inmates were cooking him meals on makeshift heating elements — curry chicken, pizza and empanadas among them — while others reportedly held onto his fan mail or safeguarded a contraband cell phone that he allegedly used to scroll Instagram, according to reporting cited by Yahoo Entertainment.
The allegations went further still: inmates were said to be paid to handle Combs' chores, and he reportedly had access to a premium liquor stash allegedly smuggled in by guards, along with antidepressants and regular massages, per the same accounts. None of the claims have been independently verified by the Bureau of Prisons, which does not typically comment on individual inmates' conditions.
ORDINARY PRISON LIFE AS NEWS
Combs' representative pushed back forcefully on the coverage. "The continued scrutiny of every mundane detail of Sean Combs's life in prison has reached the point where the media characterizes ordinary prison life as news," the rep told Page Six, adding that "Sean continues to serve his sentence within the rules," as reported by IBTimes UK.
Whatever the truth behind the specific claims, the solitary placement itself is a matter of record: Combs is now serving time inside the Special Housing Unit while the Bureau of Prisons presumably sorts out what, if anything, actually happened inside his unit. It's the latest twist in a prison term that has drawn tabloid-level scrutiny almost from the day it began.